There are quite a variety of jobs in the world, and we wanted to find out some of the more unusual ones for this story. So we asked for people from around the country to share their thoughts with us on what the most unusual ways to make money are out there, whether they work in these jobs themselves or they just know about them. We hope you enjoy hearing about these jobs as much as we did. If you have more unusual jobs to share please feel free to share them in the comments below the article.
Porn star...can't get more unusual than that.
David Mech
Dave Pounder Productions LLC
Arise was founded in 1994 to provide work-at-home opportunities to disabled people, who provided customer service for our clients. We have since grown to be the leading provider of outsourced, work-at-home virtual call center solutions. We have a network of over 25,000 work-at-home agents, who take customer service, sales and technical support calls for our clients in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Our entirely virtual platform caters to everyone including: disabled people, military wives, veterans, stay-at-home moms, retirees and many other groups of people.
Our clients are many of the Fortune 150 companies. A few names we can disclose are Carnival Cruise Lines, ADT, Staples, Orkin, and AAA. Agents have the opportunity to service brands they love, so our client's customers are talking to fellow customers.
Seeing as these agents are not employees of Arise, they have the ability to pursue other opportunities and live a flexible lifestyle, on their terms. Agents are able to service in 30 minute increments, at the times that are most convenient for them; if an agent prefers to take calls at 2AM or 2PM, they have the freedom to service the hours they choose.
Carly Kaplan
Business Operations Analyst
Arise Virtual Solutions Inc.
The emerging profession of Cyber Threat has taken solid footing over the past three years given the amount of overt hacking incidents and threats worldwide.
Aegis FS operates in three spaces within the Financial industry; Bank Consultants, B2B Prepaid Debit Cards and Business Intelligence featuring Cyber Threat Consulting. This last division within our company made way for a very unique specialist; Cyber Reconnaissance Analyst.
Aegis FS provides excellent third party external IT and Cyber Threat Analysis featuring our Cyber Recon group that monitors our financial clients and partners IT inbound and outbound servers. We actually monitor from our secure facilities our clients cyber presence and foresee potentials for internal (deliberate) and external Cyber Theft or controlled access. Our specialists provide Cyber review internally and monitor in real time external parties "cyber stalking" of a potential Financial Target. Early warnings to our clients have saved their operations and have stopped unwanted intrusions.
We know of no other company outside of US Military Cyber Threat Operations that offers the same services. Our professionals are deep professionals that have Military and Science backgrounds. The position remuneration begins at $135k and tops off at $235k.
Jim Angleton
AEGIS FinServ Corp.
I'm a professional mentalist. In other words, I travel around the world reading people's minds. I've been fortunate enough to be featured on NBC's "Phenomenon," The Ellen Degeneres Show, The Glenn Beck Show, Yahoo! Finance, CNN Money, CBS, The Science Channel, and The Discovery Network.
My job includes traveling to strange locations and reading the inner-most thoughts of my audience members. I just booked a show in Doha, Qatar and another in Japan.
I also perform other strange feats such as moving objects with my mind, driving cars blindfolded, predicting the future, etc.
Wayne Hoffman
Hoffman Entertainment
We are a cleaning and restoration firm in Wichita, KS.
Some of the most unusual jobs we have performed:
Cleanup after suicide
Cleaning up an old hotel full of dead pigeons
Our motto is never say no, so you can imagine we get into a few pickles.
Sam Lazarus
ServiceMaster by Best Corporation
Air Duct, Carpet, Fire, Water, Mold Clean-up
The most unusual job that I have worked was becoming a ChaCha guide. ChaCha is a texting and app-based service that gives free, real-time answers to any question both online at ChaCha.com and through mobile phones by either texting "ChaCha" (242-242) or using one of our mobile apps. This was a very interesting job because of the types of ridiculous questions I received from thousands of Cha Cha users every day. It was also strange because of the logistics. As a Cha Cha guide, I could spend 8 hours answering a ton of questions (as fast as possible) and only make a two cents per questions answered. So I was working through as many as possible quickly. The ironic part of this is that since I was working so quickly, I would basically automate my responses. So the weird questions I was receiving also earned strange answers from me. Let's just say that the quality of ChaCha has never been very good and I can honestly admit to being part of the problem.
Alex Dolin
We have over 16,000 job listings open on our site, and all of them involve some kind of work flexibility (telecommuting, freelance, flex schedule, part-time). There are some very unusual flexible jobs out there! Here's a sample:
*Virtual Physical Education Teacher* - State-certified physical education teachers are hired by virtual public school systems to "provide instruction, support and guidance, manage the learning process, and focus on students' individual needs"
*Freelance Jail Diversion Specialist* - "Conduct face to face assessments of individuals remanded to the Delaware County Jail who are suspected of having a serious mental illness, co-occuring addiction disorder, or a developmental disability and have committed a misdemeanor or certain non-violent felonies."
*Telecommuting Veterinary Dermatologist*- "Experienced veterinary professional needed to consult with customers about their patients' dermatologic conditions, including choosing diagnostic tests and interpreting lab results."
*Virtual Lifestyle Health Coach* - "The Lifestyle Health Coach will work remotely telephonically to educate, motivate, empower and coach clients on their individualized goals for lifestyle change. Incumbent will coach participants in broad areas of health/lifestyle management, prevention and risk reduction to help them improve their overall health and reach their personal health goals."
*Temporary Wildlife Research Technician -* "This position is part of a long-term assessment of mammalian and avian predator distribution and abundance in Virginia with emphasis on the spotted skunk and a long-term study of endangered Indiana bat ecology in New York."
*Telecommuting Transplant Case Manager RN* - "Coordinate organ transplant services for patients, review patient benefits, educate patients on benefits process and provide counseling and support throughout transplant experience."
Sara Sutton
CEO/Founder
FlexJobs
My unusual job is that I am a professional genealogist! I think it is the coolest job I could ever hope to have. I specialize in Jewish and newspaper research but have also worked with people on black American, Scottish, Russian, Italian, and East Indian ancestry, among others. My approach to family history is that it's a puzzle to be solved, with the goal of learning about your ancestors as individuals and about the times in which they lived. I also research heirs for probate cases and for property in Texas with oil and gas rights. And with the increasing amount of information online, I can work from almost anywhere.
Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
As a TOP Celebrity Body Parts Model in Hollywood, I've doubled my famous hands, arms, legs, feet,back and even my belly button for 100's of actresses, models and A-List celebrities in over 1000 commercials, TV shows and movies. Some of them include: Courtney Thorne Smith, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Garner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Walsh, Alyssa Milano, Cindy Crawford, MillaJovovich, Molly Sims, Debra Messing, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Rachel Weisz, Kristen Johnston, Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Paulina Porizkova, Kirstie Alley, Sigourney Weaver, Lauren Hutton, Sela Ward, SwoozieKurts, Loni Anderson, Leslie Bibb, Brenda Strong (one of The Desperate Housewives) and 100's more. You know that finger that pokes the Pillsbury Dough Boy or the hand that "ding, ding, dings" the crystal glass in the Fancy Feast commercials? That's me too!
Many Americans have no idea that it's my hands that have poked the Pillsbury Dough Boy, and ding, ding, dinged the Fancy Feast crystal bowl, as well as chop, slice, pour and drizzle foods in thousands of commercials they see on TV. I have also doubled my hands, arms, feet for several supermodels and celebrities in beauty campaigns for Revlon, L'Oreal, Estee Lauder, Maybelline, Almay, Neutrogena and more. Though I have lovely, skilled hands and young-looking body parts, my funny stories on the set captivate people; including the hair extensions worn by the Fancy Feast cat! She has her own trailer and manager too. My job sometimes requires me to be held by my ankles to be lowered into frame to complete the shots!
Even more interesting is that my career as a body parts model serendipitously led me to becoming a highly sought-after beauty expert on radio and TV! Thousands of women of all ages and professions including medical doctors, moms and baby boomers reach out to me because they want to know my "budget-friendly" secrets to keeping my skin, nails, hair, hands and body looking camera-ready. This then prompted me to write about what I loved and knew best -- and soon my little book, "Hollywood Beauty Secrets: Remedies to the Rescue" sold over 25,000 copies. In the book I reveal scientifically proven and fresh, non-invasive ways for women to look and feel younger -- no costly treatments or over-priced skin care necessary! My book is doctor-recommended too. I am now often a guest beauty expert on morning news shows (KTLA, KCAL and more) and on national shows CBS The Talk and The Doctors-- whipping up my beauty recipes made with foods, kitchen condiments and common medicine cabinet staples that most Americans have in their homes. From milk of magnesia to bandages and calamine lotion -- I reveal how these items can double as age-defying tools! I've also been a repeat guest on the very prestigious Sirius Doctor XM Radio as well as over 500 more terrestrial radio stations. I now own a very successful niche on-line business. Now it's our family business. It's been quite a ride!
Louisa Graves
Celebrity Hand and Body Parts Model
